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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump suffered a pair of setbacks on Friday when the Justice Department cleared the way for the release of his tax records and also disclosed a memo showing he urged top officials to falsely claim his election defeat was \u201ccorrupt.\u201d<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump during his first post-presidency campaign rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, U.S., June 26, 2021. REUTERS\/Shannon Stapleton<\/figcaption>

Handwritten notes taken by Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue in December and released on Friday by the chair of the House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee paint a damning picture of Trump as he desperately sought to get the department to take the unprecedented step of intervening to try to upend his 2020 election loss.<\/p>\n

Hours later, the department cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over Trump\u2019s tax records to congressional investigators – a move he has long fought.<\/p>\n

The fact that the Justice Department allowed the handwritten notes concerning the election to be turned over the congressional investigators marks a dramatic shift from actions taken during the Trump administration, which repeatedly invoked executive privilege to skirt congressional scrutiny.<\/p>\n

The newly released notes detail a Dec. 27 phone call in which Jeffrey Rosen, who was appointed as acting attorney general a few days later, is quoted as telling Trump: \u201cUnderstand that the DOJ can\u2019t + won\u2019t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t expect you to do that,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cJust say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,\u201d in a reference to Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department ordered the IRS to hand over Trump\u2019s tax returns to a U.S. House of Representatives congressional committee, saying the panel has invoked \u201csufficient reasons\u201d for requesting it.<\/p>\n

The department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel reversed course and declared the department had erred in 2019 when it found that the request for Trump\u2019s taxes by the House Ways and Means Committee was based on a \u201cdisingenuous\u201d objective aimed at exposing them to the public.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s actions will make it easier for congressional investigators to interview key witnesses and collect evidence against Trump.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Justice Department decided that due to \u201ccompelling legislative interests,\u201d it was authorizing six former Trump administration officials to sit for interviews with the House Oversight committee. These include Rosen and Donoghue, as well as former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who resigned amid pressure from Trump, former Associate Deputy Attorney General Patrick Hovakimian and former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee has begun scheduling interviews with key witnesses to investigate the full extent of the former President\u2019s corruption, and I will exercise every tool at my disposal to ensure all witness testimony is secured without delay,\u201d Maloney said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Clark is currently at the heart of an ongoing here by the Justice Department’s inspector general after news came to light he had plotted with Trump in a failed bid to oust Rosen so he could launch an investigation into alleged voter fraud in Georgia.<\/p>\n

In the Dec. 27 call with Rosen, Trump threatened to put Clark in charge, according to the hand-written notes, telling Rosen: \u201cPeople tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in. People want me to replace DOJ leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the call, Trump repeatedly pushed false claims that the election had been stolen. \u201cYou guys may not be following the internet the way I do,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Rosen and Donoghue tried to tell Trump his information was incorrect multiple times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing our job,\u201d the notes say. \u201cMuch of the info you\u2019re getting is false.\u201d<\/p>\n

A little more than a week later, based on Trump\u2019s false claims that the election was stolen, thousands of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden\u2019s election victory.<\/p>\n

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